CHAPTER 9

CHOICE

After when Spike was done thinking, he came downstairs seeing Shadow and Rouge sitting on the couch together, "No way", he said softly. He ran over to them looking excited, "Mom, dad you're together...right?"

Shadow looked down to the floor, "I don't think..." He felt Rouge's hand on his and looked over to her.

"Yes we are", she said with a smile.

"But what about Knuckles and your marriage? I felt like I interfered with your life."

"You didn't, I did. I still love you, Shadow and I always will but when you died I felt alone and I..."

"You don't have to say another word. I know and I'm here."

She leaned over to him and hugged him.

Spike smiled at his father and was so happy that what Rouge had said about Shadow was truly a lie.

Later that next day at Rouge's house, the doorbell rung and Lynn showed up at the door with a big brown book in her hands. She ran over to Spike and kissed him on the cheek, "Hey, Spike." She sat on the sofa with the brown book in her lap.

"What are you doing here?"

"To give you some inside information on the fourteen demons."

"Fourteen demons?"

"Yeah my parents told me about it last night. Speaking of parents where are yours?"

The black hedgehog sat beside her with a smirk appearing on his face, "Upstairs."

Lynn realized that she didn't want to hear the rest, "I'd rather not hear the details."

Spike took the book from her lap and glanced through the it, "So this book is about the fourteen demons huh? Seems interesting."

"Yeah I want you to keep it. I don't need the information."

He set the book on the table beside him, "Thanks, maybe I'll have use for it."

Lynn moved on to a different subject, "Spike, are you okay lately? You seem kinda upset."

"A little pissed off at Knuckles, but other than that I'm fine."

She smiled a bit, "I'm glad."

The two teenagers were silent for a moment and didn't have a clue what they wanted to say to each other at the time.

Spike then knew what he wanted to say to her, but before he could he felt a hand on his leg. He looked over to the pink cat and smiled. He wanted her and he knew she felt the same. He took his hand and slid it under her short pink skirt.

She shuddered as she let out a gasp.

He held her close and started to kiss her.

Meanwhile in Rouge's bedroom, Shadow was talking to Rouge about his mission to retrieve Heaven's Light.

"With Heaven's Light, Deminse brought back the fourteen demons?" Rouge had once again repeated.

Shadow nodded, "Yeah and if I don't get it back soon, heaven won't be very heavenly anymore."

"Shadow, that's awful. You have to stop him."

"No shit." He sighed. "I'm worried about the city. The fourteen demons are on the lose and now people just might get hurt or maybe even worse."

She took his hand, "You can do it, Shad. I know you can. Just give em hell."

He laughed a bit, "Interesting choice of words."

Then they heard a girl scream downstairs.

"What the fuck", Shadow and Rouge ran downstairs and saw Chloe, Charmy, and Vector looking at a naked Spike on top of naked Lynn with white fluid all over the sofa , carpet, and Lynn.

Rouge placed her hands on her hips and glared at Spike, "What the hell! Spike the Hedgehog, what do you think you're doing on my sofa and with Lynn!"

Spike quickly got off of Lynn and started to put his clothes back on while trying to explain himself. "I'm sorry I was uh...well you know what I was doing." He started to blush of embarrassment.

Lynn started to put her clothes on as well as he was explaining.

The green crocodile smirked, "Like father like son I always say."

Shadow crossed his arms, "What are you doing here anyway?"

"Chloe sensed a demon somewhere in the city. See if you can find one."

Shadow nodded and quickly kissed Rouge on the cheek, "I'll see you later."

"Be careful", She was worried about him already. She just reunited with him and she never wanted him to leave her again.

Later in the city, Shadow had sensed a demon nearby. "I feel it." As he walked ahead, the demon he sensed had gotten closer. He walked in front of a wedding dress store and that was where the demon was the closest. He slowly walked in and everything was quiet and dark. There was broken glass all over the floor from the broken windows. He found a basement and went down there with caution because it was darker down there than up there. As he reached the bottom he heard soft sobs coming from the right side of him. He looked over and saw a young woman and a little girl sitting in a small corner together being threatened by a big man with orange hair and with two chainsaws attached on each of his wrists. He gasped, "Satar."

The demon turned and saw the black hedgehog approaching him. He laughed, "Hedgehog, you showed up at the right time for once."

"Leave them alone."

"Like I'm going to do that", he grabbed the little girl with his wrists and held her close with one of his chainsaws touching her neck threatening to kill her.

The girl screamed, "Mommy!" She shouted with tears.

"No!" The woman shouted, "Leave her alone!"

The hedgehog gritted his teeth, "Let her go, Satar!"

"Come on, Hedgehog cut me a break. I haven't killed in so long."

"Don't hurt her!"

Satar thought for a moment, "I'll tell you what Hedgehog, I won't kill her if you kill the woman."

The woman looked over to Shadow hoping that he wouldn't choose to do that.

"I can't..." Shadow had said in a low voice.

Satar's chainsaws started to run around the girl's neck, "Do it!"

"All right! I'll do it!" Shadow slowly walked over to the woman and placed his hand on her neck. "I'm sorry", he whispered in her ear.

All of a sudden the woman felt something sharp going through her neck. She let out a groan of pain as her blood dripped over her clothes and on the floor.

The girl cried and screamed.

Shadow took out his demon claw out of her neck and watched as her dead body dropped on the floor. He looked over to Satar in anger, "I killed her now let the girl go."

"Not just yet. I want you to drink her blood", the demon added.

"No, I won't. I can't."

"Then the girl will die", Satar lured his weapon against the girl's neck once more.

"Stop! Don't do it!"

"Drink the fucking blood!"

Shadow kneeled to the floor and stared at the woman's bloody neck. He knew that once he tasted blood, he couldn't get enough of it. That was probably Satar's sick joke. He took his tongue and licked the blood from the woman's neck. He stopped for a moment to enjoy the taste. He loved it and he wanted more of it. Fangs had appeared from his mouth and he continued to drink her blood. Sucking and licking the remaining blood she had left in her body.

The crying little girl looked away from her mother's dead body.

Satar smirked as he did it, "Enjoying the taste?"

"It's so damn good", he said in a deep voice.

"Want more?"

Shadow looked away from the corpse and faced him giving him a nod. He stood from the floor.

Satar's chainsaws started once more. The moving chains touched the girl's neck and her blood scattered all over the room even on Satar and Shadow. He dropped the almost headless girl on the floor with blood gushing out of her cut neck.

The bloody hedgehog kneeled to the floor where the dead girl lied and started to lick the blood around her neck.

Satar let out a laugh, "You're on your way, Hedgehog." A red light appeared and he disappeared.

After when he left, Shadow stopped licking the bloody girl and realized that she was dead and it was because of him. "No..." he said softly. He began to cry and scream, "No! God no! What did I do! What have I done! What the fuck have I become!"